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Book World: Michael Dirda reviews 'Herge' and 'The Metamorphoses of Tintin' - washingtonpost.com
So ... Hergé really was a borderline Nazi collaborationist, after all. I always suspected something about that clean-cut kid.
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch: review - Telegraph
Eamon Duffy reviews Diarmuid MacCulloch's new book, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (to be released in the US in March 2010).
Kodak Zi8 1080p Pocket Camcorder Review: Your Move, Flip - Kodak zi8 - Gizmodo
As of today (Oct. 22), you can get one of these at BestBuy.com for $159. I wonder if that price is also available in stores. This post is from August, 2009.
Bright-Sided: The Negative Consequences Of Positive Thinking - Bright-sided - Jezebel
I love Barbara Ehrenreich, and this is a great review of her most recent book. I'd like to do a post on this myself.
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Ehrenreich also writes persuasively that the popularity of positive thinking in corporate America — she cites the rise of "self-described management gurus" like Tony Robbins and the book Who Moved My Cheese? as examples — has served to blind workers to their ever-decreasing job security.
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By and large, America's white-collar corporate workforce drank the Kool-Aid, as the expression goes, and accepted positive thinking as a substitute for their former affluence and security. They did not take to the streets, shift their political allegiance in large numbers, or show up at work with automatic weapons in hand. As one laid-off executive told me with quiet pride, "I've gotten over my negative feelings, which were so dysfunctional." Positive thinking promised them a sense of control in a world where the "cheese" was always moving. They may have had less and less power to chart their own futures, but they had been given a worldview — a belief system, almost a religion — that claimed they were in fact infinitely powerful, if they could only master their own minds.
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Counter-cultural teenagers -- Review of Does my head look big in this? Randa Abdel-Fattah | Books | Sydneyanglicans.net
A review, on an Anglican site, of a book written by a Muslim woman from the point of view of a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl growing up in Australia who has just decided to veil. Reviewed as a good coming-of-age story for religious teenagers of any type. Sounds kind of interesting.
Journal of Religion & Film: Dancer in the Dark Film Review by S. Brent Plate
Plate is one smart cookie.
Modernity’s Fraternity < Killing the Buddha
Notes on Freemasonry in American history and popular culture, and Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol."
The Worst Book of the 21st Century (an updated review) : Stager-to-Go
Stager reviews Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind. He hates it.
Raymond Carver reviewed by James Campbell TLS
On the new version of "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," which attempts to restore the stories to the state they were in before Knopf's Gordon Lish edited them (and, in most cases, drastically shortened and altered them).
The Bible by the kids' books: Literal or symbolic? - USATODAY.com
Another review of The Jesus Storybook Bible, this time from USA Today.
A Very Grown-up Children's Bible | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction
A review of the Jesus Storybook Bible from CT.
"One man's declassification of solitude," People's Daily Online (July 20, 2009) -- on Liu Zhenyun, One Word Matches Ten Thousand
Liu Zhenyun's new novel, One Word Matches Ten Thousand, is "an in-depth analysis of the alienation and estrangement that is considered common among many Chinese. 'The loneliness that plagues Chinese people permeates in each society in Chinese history and the novel, focusing on the general population and delving into their souls, constitutes the first of its kind in dealing with the subject since the May 4 Movement in 1919,' commented An Boshun, a well-known publisher and editor of the novel."
Cosmic Hearse: Innocence & Despair
A review of the famous 1977 recording, "Innocence and Despair," from The Langley Schools Music Project. I haven't actually listened to this and I'm slightly afraid to. Includes a download link for the non-copyright-respecters among us.
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